Summary: US consumer confidence back to 2018 and 2019 levels; sizable increase in Conference Board index in June; reading more than expected; views of present conditions, short-term outlook improves; June quarter “strengthens”; business conditions, financial prospects to “continue improving”; job indicators at 21-year high, indicative of “very tight labour market”. After the GFC in 2008/09, US consumer confidence clawed its way back to neutral over a number of years...